Oksana Waterfall, Mullumbimby
The Dustyesky Choir sang at the Mullum Music Festival, in front of a hammer and sickle backdrop.
As a Ukrainian Australian, I find this extremely distressing. The Soviet regime accounted for the deaths of over 6 million Ukrainians, through starvation or execution. The gulags were full of Ukrainians, including relatives of mine who died there.
This choir, singing its Soviet era songs is not quaint or amusing. It is tasteless and cruel. If it was a choir singing Nazi songs of the Holocaust in front of a swastika, people would be rightly outraged. Dustyesky Choir just glorify a different genocide.
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
